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I agree with the sentiment of the article overall but this one sentence felt bizarrely out of place to me: > Here are a couple of works by the greatest archite

I agree with the sentiment of the article overall but this one sentence felt bizarrely out of place to me: > Here are a couple of works by the greatest architect who ever lived, Antoni Gaudí Really? Apart from the Sagrada Familia, the rest of his more famous works just comes off as weirdly whimsical at best, and discordantly unattractive at worst. It’s strange seeing such a definitive opinion given the grandeur of some of the ancient work the author highlights earlier, which seems far beyond Gaudí. Another irony here is that his work falls under the label of “Catalan modernism”, while the author is railing against modernism and its derivative styles.

generationP 5y ago
> Another irony here is that his work falls under the label of “Catalan modernism”, while the author is railing against modernism and its derivative styles. Gaudi seems to be one of those great artists who never managed to impart his good ideas on his students. Or maybe it was the wrong era for whimsy and measured extravagance.
PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago
When I visited Casa Mila ("La Pedrera"), one of the most striking things about it was how modern it seemed. It was commissioned in 1902 and finished in 1910. More than 100 years later, almost nothing about it felt dated (other than specific appliances), and several details felt as if they were still coming from the future. I've had this feeling in some of Gaudi's other buildings, as if he was so far ahead of us that more than a century later, we have still not really caught up with his vision.